• Some of it is 20/20 hindsight, but this list of television blunders of the 2000s certainly contains some doozies.
• Slashfilm has a look at the battle Netflix faces in trying to increase the number of movies available for live streaming.
• I'm not sure I buy all of the lessons for Hollywood contained in this piece (such as the need for audiences to feel like comedies could really happen to them, allegedly demonstrated by ... The Hangover?), but if you're eagerly consuming as much end-of-year content as you possibly can in the next 48 hours, it's worth including.
More on movies, running into Bono on the street, and two follow-ups, after the jump.
• In the alternative, or in addition, here's Indiewire's list of the biggest stories in independent film from this year.
• How much would you have enjoyed stumbling across Bono and Glen Hansard busking?
• Time Warner and Fox are, as you may know, locked in a standoff that is threatening to result in Fox programming being pulled from Time Warner customers if a deal isn't reached very, very soon. Both sides are hard at work to convince viewers not to blame their side if things aren't resolved.
• The first of two follow-ups: Did you enjoy "On The Wings Of Dreaming Eagles," the worst song ever written? You'll love the remix, which you can download free.
• The second of two follow-ups: I realize now that I should have mentioned in the pop-culture humans piece that SB Sarah (and her site co-writer Candy) have a book called, very awesomely, Beyond Heaving Bosoms. They're much too polite to point it out, but I meant to and forgot.
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